Mounting hard drive; Hello, where are you?

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I am trying to do something very simple but it is being anything 
but... I have a laptop hard drive here that I am trying to image before 
I erase. Simple enough; I connect it as Master on the secondary channel, 
boot, '# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/backup'... nothing. Try '#fdisk 
-l', nothing. I know that hardware-wise it's fine because I tried (uggh) 
booting my Win2k part and there it is seen fine. Also, on boot the BIOS 
sees it (not that it matters to Linux) and on powerdown it reports to 
flush HDC...

   So, does anyone have any idea why a seemingly fine connected FAT32 
hard drive (10GB) would not be seen by Linux's FDISK but it WOULD be 
found by Win2k? Isn't that pretty bass-ackwards? Any help is appreciated!

Madison

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